Dream Kisses became the first
2-year-old winner of Dream Ahead's second local crop to race when overcoming a
couple of notable mishaps to land a $60,000 2YO Handicap staged over 1000m at
the Eagle Farm meeting in Brisbane on Saturday.
A promising runner-up on
debut at the beginning of the month, Dream Kisses went one better at her very
next start despite blowing the start and being significantly hampered in the
straight. To her very great credit, the promising daughter of Dream Ahead took
both obstacles in her stride before surging clear over the final 150 metres to
win by a length and a quarter.
Like many of Dream
Ahead's initial winners, Dream Kisses is the product of a broodmare by a
Danzig-line stallion. Her dam, Kiss Me Katy, is a stakes winning daughter of
Mull of Kintyre (Ire), an immediate son of the thoroughbred world's most
celebrated speed influence. Other notable winners by Dream Ahead bred in
similar fashion include French Group 2 winner Donjuan Triumphant, as well as
the stakes-placed winners Dream of Dreams, Dreams Aplenty and Boos.
Boos is
another second-crop 2-year-old filly by Dream Ahead to make an impact over the
past 24 hours. A northern hemisphere-bred juvenile trained in France, Boos went
within a head of winning the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte overnight.
Significantly, the very same European Pattern Race event was won by Dream
Ahead's first-crop son Donjuan
Triumphant last season.
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